US will pose ‘increasingly severe threat’ to future Chinese development through dollar’s global monopoly

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and over 40 trade associations on Monday urged top American and Chinese officials to redouble efforts to implement a Phase 1 trade agreement signed by the world’s two largest economies in January despite pandemic-related strains.

The Deputy Secretary-General of the Forum Macao, Rodrigo Brum said that Portuguese-speaking countries ⁠– namely Portugal ⁠– should take more advantage of this organisation to attract Chinese foreign investment, namely in greenfield investments.

Already buffeted by US-China trade tensions, the European Union has stepped efforts to produce closer to home in the wake of the global pandemic, which is causing the steepest recession in almost a century

The EU-China Summit this week made clear that while both the United States and Europe are both moving toward a tougher and more critical view of China, European governments aren’t anywhere near as tough.

Beijing opens door to manufacturing and financial services sectors by another notch with shortened ‘negative list’, but business groups say markets are already dominated by local players

According to the European Commission, this year’s dialogue of the 9th EU-China Energy Dialogue “focused on clean energy policies, in the context of both parties’ efforts to overcome the economic crisis caused by COVID19”.

Huawei is launching it´s ICT Academy in Portugal, for the installation of an infrastructure dedicated to the development of 5G and Artificial Intelligence.

Investment agreement, human rights and Hong Kong raised in talks between Premier Li Keqiang and European Union leaders, according to bloc

China and the European Union (EU) on Monday reaffirmed commitment to conclude a comprehensive bilateral investment agreement in 2020.